National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture Studio with Professor Joerg Rekittke

Any urban study of 'The Big Village,' as the city of Jakarta is known, requires detailed knowledge of the ground. In our fieldwork in a kampung (village) near the Ciliwung River, undertaken with students from the University of Indonesia, the students made a rigorous house-by-house survey of ownership structure, supported by interviews and documented in detailed drawings. Through installing the three-dimensional network of lines in the space, the students could tell a more precise story of land use, flood resilience, and the history of land tenure within the kampung and throughout the Big Village. Images courtesy of NUS & Future Cities Laboratory